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RokarooJack
12.13.2011 , 06:11 PM | #81
Quote: Originally Posted by Darth_Bond View Post
a truly bad post looks like a wall o text

TLDR pls?
TLDR is one of the following:

1) Wow bad, Star Wars good

or

2) back in my day, we had to walk to game launches, in the snow, uphill, both ways, with no shoes

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DaPyro
12.13.2011 , 06:12 PM | #82
Quote: Originally Posted by Alyxa View Post
You're allowed to download the game client starting the day before launch. It takes you the better part of a day because everyone and their grandmother and their dog are all trying to get the game installed before launch.

You finally get the game installed and fired up. You log in. You're #785 in a queue. It takes 3 hours to get into the game.

You get into the game, but the server lag is freaking terrible. Like you can't even move. You get disconnected.

You have to log in again, but LUCKILY you don't have to wait in queue again. You get into the game, but then the server crashes.

2 hours later you get an update on the game launcher from an hour ago saying that they'll have an update in 30 minutes. Ho hum. Servers down. For forever. Wasted Pizza Hutt and Full Throttles. Never really know *** happened.

When the servers do finally come back up (the next morning), you get in and everything seems good. Except there are 20 people sitting on a quest giver, making him unclickable. And then you have to go fight over mob spawns against 20 other people. Then you get to the part of the quest where you kill "the big guy" and you're stuck waiting to get your quest kill of ONE MOB, while you're getting ganked, and that stupid warrior's charge tagged the mob before you could get off a moonfire.

You finally get your quest kill and you have to go digging through a stack of players AGAIN to turn in your quest.

And then you get a game announcement saying that they're doing a server rollback.

So an hour later after they finally get the servers back up when it should have taken 15 minutes, you have to deal with 20 people camping the same mob YOU ALREADY KILLED while you're getting ganked and that stupid warrior's charge tagged the mob before you could get off a moonfire, and then you have to go digging through a stack of players again AGAIN to turn in your quest AGAIN.

So...

Am I a little frustrated that other people are playing the game that I'm DYING to play? Yes.

Am I frustrated that BW apparently decided to call it a day early and stop sending out waves for 16 and a half hours? Yes.

Could they have done this some other, better, way? Probably.

But "the worst launch ever"? I'm sorry, but no. BW made it known from DAY ONE that not everyone was getting into the game on day one of early access. And if it means that I don't have to sit for four hours in a queue so the servers can crash before I have to fight 50 people for the same respawns so they can rollback the servers and I have to do it all over again, then... Okay.
no matter how you say it this "is" the worst launch ever, people need to get in to take theyre names, alot of fun reordering to get names and then you get in coule of days after launch and then maybe all names are gone wich you were gonna use, then the whole idea of preordering for early access is nullified, i would much rather be able to login make my char and then wait in que or even just wait while servers are down since i already have the names, people have different reasons and this is just crap how they are doing things hands down,

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mistyzj
12.13.2011 , 06:12 PM | #83
Quote: Originally Posted by Tsumedai View Post
Memo to those mocking Drakinor for not reading the whole OP: reading the whole thread may reduce your irony quotient.
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Kashaan
12.13.2011 , 06:12 PM | #84
Quote: Originally Posted by Alyxa View Post
You finally get the game installed and fired up. You log in. You're #785 in a queue. It takes 3 hours to get into the game.
Better than a 3 day queue.
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coronary
12.13.2011 , 06:13 PM | #85
Quote: Originally Posted by GGTeMpLaR View Post
I'd prefer to at least be on equal grounds with everyone else rather than be forced to the back of the bus because I didn't pre-order the game the first week it was made available.
I think the ppl that were loyally following this game and preordered the instant it came out should be rewarded for that loyalty.


p.s I only ordered in october, not playing atm.
Who's more foolish? The fool or the fool who follows it?

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Kento-Solo
12.13.2011 , 06:13 PM | #86
i agree with the OP. There trying hard, maybe there calling it an "early day" so they can get another long crack at it tomorrow to! In the meantime, Star Wars Bluray and Darth Bane Rule of Two for moi!!
I'm just a simple man trying to make his way in the universe

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Klawm
12.13.2011 , 06:13 PM | #87
It's not like most people expected to immediately enter the game.

The things that suck are the fact that when you get in isn't reported, and that the time between people getting in is so long. I preordered somewhere stupid like November, so I don't expect to get in any time soon. But what bugs me is that I don't know when I can get in.

Also, they're releasing people into the game in a ponderously slow fashion. Only an idiot wants free access for all day one, but a better planned, more transparent, and quicker launch would have been a good idea.

It isn't one or another, in my opinion, more a middle-ground I wanted. Transparency isn't some evil unwanted thing in an MMO, in fact, I can't think of a single MMO that actually told its players what is going on (maybe it is then)...

The lack of transparency or feedback is WORSE than any actual technical failure in game launch in my opinion. I can jump onto a laggy server and go 'oh well, I'll wait until they fix their stuff'. Now I'm going 'I only preordered November, but should I keep an eye on my launcher just in case??', and my brother stayed awake all through the night waiting for the game to be available.

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Tsumedai
12.13.2011 , 06:13 PM | #88
Quote: Originally Posted by GGTeMpLaR View Post
I'd prefer to at least be on equal grounds with everyone else rather than be forced to the back of the bus because I didn't pre-order the game the first week it was made available.
...did you really just compare a staggered release to racial segregation?

Yes. Yes, you did. Fascinating.

Also, for a game of this size there's no such thing as 'equal grounds'. Any launch plan will favour someone.

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rossfenwick
12.13.2011 , 06:13 PM | #89
Quote: Originally Posted by Darkmack View Post
@OP

Trust me those writhing in pain over not getting into day 1 hardly have the attention span to read your post.

For what it's worth though I agree fully, too bad they can't see it this way.
Agreed.
"In any compromise between food and poison, it is only death that can win. In any compromise between good and evil, it is only evil that can profit."

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klaarzaken
12.13.2011 , 06:14 PM | #90
Pfff why do all females whine and whine and whine
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